Hello there

I have posted this on the acronis forums, and i don't know why i did not recieve any replys, its a simple question to ask, unless the question is so dumb its not worth answering or its worded wrong, but anyway here goes

Acronis true image HOME 2009 Automatic consolidation"


What does this actually do, i have acronis installed but have not really bothered about setting limits/conditions.

So if i do set limits on a BACKUP (example) to say maximum 5 backups , then on the 6th backup i would have exceeded the maximum number of backups by one.

So then aotomatic consolidation will be performed.

But this puzzels me a bit after what i have read in the help pages it goes on to say " Automatic Consolidation only can consolidate two backups in one"
So i would have one full backup and 5 incremental ones So what does happen here when automatic consolidation is performed.

I am backing up to a external HARD drive, so here is another STATEMENT from the help pages.

" Description = Automatic consolidation in acronis true image home can be set up for any backup tasks that creates incremental or differential backups regardless of the archives storage place (EXCEPT FOR REMOVABLE MEDIA"
I' have never used this feature in Acronis so i can't advise...
Not sure where you posted but Here is the Forum i visit...Thanks patio.

Yea, wilders forum is closed now i did use that, until acronis set there own one up but sometimes they are very slow in answering, if they answer at all.......http://forum.acronis.com/

What i'll do then is create a backup with limits and SEE what it consolidates....

I had no idea that Wilder's had closed that section...thanx for the heads up !